Film Phenomenologies

Temporality, Embodiment, Transformation

Edited by Kelli Fuery

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Presents a diverse range of phenomenological approaches that explore and expand the subject of film-phenomenology

Contents

Introduction: Toward A Critical Phenomenology of "Film Work" - Kelli Fuery

Part 1: Temporality

The Psychology and Phenomenology of Play in Céline Sciamma’s Petite Maman - Kate Ince
Phenomenology in the Kitchen: Feeling Time Like a Feminist - Lori Marso
For a Critical Phenomenology of Montage: John Akomfrah’s Vertigo Sea—With Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Karen Barad - Domietta Torlasco
The khôra-screen: Responsibility as a Precarious Intimacy in Agnès Varda’s One Sings, The Other Doesn’t - Kelli Fuery

Part 2: Embodiment

Human as Cosmos in Bill Viola’s Five Angels for the Millennium: The Scattered Body of Scalar Configurations - Elena del Río
The Posthumous Phenomenology of the Star Biopic: Kristen Stewart as Jean Seberg in Seberg - Lucy Bolton
The Assassination of Marilyn Monroe by the Coward Andrew Dominik: An Existentialist Phenomenology of Cinematic Imagination - David Sorfa
Eco Soma Methods and Disability Film Dance: Moving, Stumbling, Sliding - Petra Kuppers
Echoing Images: Dark Reverberation and the Bachelardian Imagination of Folk Horror in Alex Garland’s Men - Saige Walton

Part 3: Transformation

‘A Braid of Partial Syntheses’: Husserl’s Redetermination and the Visual Excess of the (K)not - Patrick Fuery
New Phenomenological Approaches to Affect, Mood, and Atmospheres - Robert Sinnerbrink
Swimming in Moonlight: On Viewing Black Masculinity Differently with bell hooks - Qrescent Mali Mason
AI Phenomenology: Breath, Machine Learning, and Husserl, Polanyi, and Grosz’s Relational Kinaesthesia - Lisa Müller-Trede

Reviews

'This is a gorgeous, exploratory book envisaging diverse and plural film phenomenologies. Beautifully curated by Kelli Fuery, it responds to situated experiences, expressing commitment to the ethical and activist potential of film experience. Encompassing studies of John Akomfrah, of Agnès Varda, of play in Céline Sciamma, swimming in Moonlight, amongst many other subjects, the excellent essays here represent some of the finest writing currently in this field.'
– Emma Wilson, Professor of French Literature and the Visual Arts, University of Cambridge

'Kelli Fuery’s collection Film Phenomenologies widens the scope of phenomenological inquiry into cinema. It shows how this phenomenology doesn’t remain constrained in its theoretical origins to shed light on the most pressing political and cultural issues of our time. At the same time, it provides crucial insight into how the mainsprings of phenomenology as worked out by Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, and Beauvoir remain relevant today for thinking about filmic experience. Every essay offers new revelations.'
– Professor Todd McGowan, The University of Vermont

About the Author

Kelli Fuery is Professor of Creative and Cultural Industries in Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Chapman University, California. She is the author of five books, including Ambiguous Cinema: From Simone de Beauvoir to Feminist Film-Phenomenology and Wilfred Bion, Thinking and Emotional Experience with Moving Images. Her next project examines Bion’s notion of the bizarre object and interconnected themes of hallucination, phenomenology and virtuality.